Tagged: NT

Russians in Australia – Holtze family is a well known family who came to Northern Territory in early 1870s.  They are considered the Pioneers of NT. At least five places in Northern Territory are called after their names– suburb Ludmilla, suburb Holtze, Ludmilla Creek, Holtze Crescent and Wallaby Holtze Road....

Mr Alex (Alick) Gory was a ”former Russian Cossack, cane cutter, tin miner, gold prospector, railway construction worker and peanut grower” and he has done everything that Northern Territory offered to its citizens. Alex Gory was born in 1894 (per Alien registration papers) or on 15 May 1881 (per his admission)...